The Tara River cuts the Tara River Gorge, the deepest canyon in Montenegro and Europe, at 78 kilometers in length and 1,300 meters at its deepest. The canyon is protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is a part of Durmitor national park.
The Bosnian and the Montenegran government had plans to flood the Tara Gorge, with the construction of a hydroelectric dam in the Drina River. However, it abandoned this plan (PDF) in April, 2005 after several successful protests of advocates for the preservation of the canyon.
Tara River is not to be confused with Tara Mountain and Tara National Park, which are situated in southern Serbia.
Rafting is very popular on Tara River. Among the attractions of the area is Đurđevića Tara Bridge, on the crossroads between Mojkovac, Žabljak i Pljevlja.
So beautiful, so clear all along its flow, forcing those in love with her to name her THE TEAR OF EUROPE.
The Tara canyon, unique in its depth of usually thousand meters, someplace even a thousand and three hundred meters deep, is placed right behind the Grand Canyon in Colorado, USA. Tara, at its end making confluence with Piva, and giving birth to Drina, is some hundred and fifty kilometers long, and is the longest Montenegro river. In its part through The National Park Durmitor, Tara has a mean fall of 3.6 meters/kilometer, making a host of waterfalls and cascades possible, thus creating with its uniqueness THE MONTENEGRO COLORADO. All along its flow, Tara gets large quantities of water from numerous sources, and quite a few tributaries. The most important tributaries on the left Tara side are Ljutica and Susica, and the most important tributaries from the right side being Vaskovaska rijeka and Draga. The most important source is the source Bajlovica sige, a source placed on the left bank of the Tara river giving to the Tara a few hundred liters per second, where the water sourcing from the Bucevica cave falls into the Tara more than thirty meters high, and more than a hundred and fifty meters bright. Very special are the Tara cascades. The roar from the cascades is heard on the very peaks of the canyon. There are more than forty cascades, the most famous being: Djavolje lazi, Sokolovina, Bijeli kamen, Gornji tepacki buk, Donji tepacki buk etc. Because of the quality of its water, and because of its unique ecological system, Tara in 1977 was put into the programme “Covjek i biosfera” (Men and Biosphere) and inscribed into the ecological biosphere reservations of the World, being thus protected under an internationally issued convention.
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